Satmar

Satmar Ahronim rift: Leaders endorse Cuomo after another backs Mamdani

Following the endorsements, both Cuomo and Mamdani responded, thanking the community's leaders and promising to make New York better for all.

Satmar Jews walk in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on December 16, 2023.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (R) visits a sukkah of Satmar community leaders in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 10, 2025; illustrative.

Zohran Mamdani is not antisemitic, Satmar's Brooklyn leadership says

Ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrate outside of the Israeli consulate in New York City, October 19, 2025.

Thousands of haredi ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Israeli military draft in New York City

 The silhouette of a man, seen over the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran (illustrative)

Israeli-American charged with spying for Iran, documenting Israeli officials' homes


Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York protest IDF draft law

Anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidic group joins Israeli Orthodox in campaign against Orthodox conscription into the IDF.

Orthodox anti-draft rally Barclays Center

Videos leaked from Satmar camps show kids protesting Israel

Not all in the community approved of the activities.

Satmar Hasidim in the Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue in the town of Kiryas Joel, New York

Satmar rebbe makes large donation to haredi institutions that refuse money from Israel

Grand rabbi of anti-Zionist, hassidic dynasty instructs youth not to present at IDF recruiting office for recruitment.

MEN SEARCH the cloak room for their jackets at a mass gathering of Satmar Hassidim in New York

Satmar Jewish school in London indoctrinates kids to hate 'evil' goyim

UK 'Independent' reports students taught that those who perpetrated Holocaust were 'goyim,' making no distinction between non-Jews and Nazis; Satmar says there is no Yiddish word for Nazis.

A member of the Jewish community walks in north London

Satmar hasidic school bans mothers from owning smartphones

Women are strictly forbidden from using a smartphone and may only own a “basic phone.”

Apple's iPhone 6 (R) and iPhone 6 Plus.

Ex-hasid who committed suicide had mental issues, says family

In an interview with 'The Daily Mail,'Finette Lerman-Russak said that her cousin Faigy Mayer, 30, had exaggerated her isolation from former friends and family.

Faigy Mayer

NY governor vetoes bill to block haredi annexation of land

The decision prompted immediate celebration from the ultra-orthodox community.

Kiryas Joel, New York.

‘Major progress made on addressing sexual abuse in orthodox community’

Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, the founder of Project YES, speaks about the improvements made in reporting abuse in the haredi community and the challenges that remain.

An Orthodox family in Jerusalem’s Sacher Park

Rival Satmar faction blasts rebbe

Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum had called on the parents of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah to repent for causing their deaths.

 Satmar Hassidic Jews. [File]

World Jewry denounces Satmar Rebbe

Leader of hassidic sect Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum blames kidnapped teens’ deaths on parents.

Aaron Teitelbaum.